cralder

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[–] cralder 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] cralder 44 points 1 month ago
[–] cralder 1 points 1 month ago

I guess so, but sponsors are easier to skip since that are always the same length. If the ad changes length you cant use the time stamps to skip it automatically

[–] cralder 6 points 1 month ago

No that's not it. As I mentioned in the post, these ads change based on my location. They are absolutely not added by the people making the podcast because they are not even in the same language as the rest of the podcast.

[–] cralder 2 points 1 month ago

As far as I can tell it depends on the podcast. Some have ads in every episode and some never have any

[–] cralder 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you for the explanation. Kinda sucks that a premium service like Spotify doesn't even host their own content, but that's capitalism I guess.

[–] cralder 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure they decide that the ad should exist, but how? When I see a mid-roll ad on YouTube for example it was put there by the person who uploaded the video but the content of the ad is delivered by youtube. Who is delivering the content of these ads?

[–] cralder 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thanks, that's good to know! Although this seems to be more related to sponsors. Like the podcast host doing an ad-read. I don't mind them as much because then at least the creators of the podcast are getting all the money and the ad is not tracking me to figure out what ad to serve me. What I am referring to is more like a regular ad that you would hear on the radio that has been stitched on to the beginning of the episode.

[–] cralder 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Oh absolutely. I understand that. But is Spotify even the one who is adding/profiting from the ads? I seems like this is coming from someone else since the ads are also on AntennaPod

[–] cralder 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I get that. But is Spotify using the same third party server then? Because the ads are always the same regardless of platform

[–] cralder 37 points 1 month ago (15 children)

This is actually really interesting and I think about it every time I look in a large mirror. IIRC it is because the mirror is always "halfway" between you and your mirror image. So as you step back your mirror image gets further away and looks smaller, but so does the mirror.

[–] cralder 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bad naming practice. CheckSuck implies it only checks and returns the result. Everything the function does should be included in the name to avoid confusion. Call it SuckIfUnsucked or something

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